xix, 468 pages : 23 cm

Includes index

Bibliography (pages 430-444)

1. 'there are leakages of information from Australia' Sigint and Coutner-Espionage -- 2. 'one directing organisation is most urgent' The Formation of Australia's Security Service -- 3. 'our security system has failed to cope' The Security Service and the War with Japan -- 4. 'our only means of gauging Japanese espionage' The Development of Sigint in Australia -- 5. 'a grave threat to national security' The First Security Leaks -- 6. 'the source was the Soviet Minister' General Blamey's Letter -- 7. 'is there any great difference?' Moscow Centre and Soviet Intelligence -- 8. 'there was no mistaking the men' The Arrival of the Russians -- 9. 'the CIS has no standing' Postwar Security and Intelligence in Australia -- 10. 'reading dozens of messages' Operation Venona: Breaking Russian Codes -- 11. 'KLOD has communicated detailed information' Venona and Soviet Espionage in Australia -- 12. 'Wally Clayton was the great Pooh-Bah' The Communist Party and Clayton -- 13. 'absorbed with Russianism' The Development of the KLOD Group -- 14. 'his friends in the NOOK' Soviet Espionage in External Affairs -- 15. 'our enquiries have met with no success' Britain's Spycatchers Come to Australia -- 16. 'identification of the spymaster has been made' ASIO and 'the case' -- 17. 'a clincher for Clayton as a spy' The End of 'the case' -- 18. 'every counter-intelligence man's dream' The Importance of 'the case'

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